David Cameron voted out by his first love boot

ALTHOUGH David Cameron professes that his wife Samantha is the love of his life, I can reveal that he was previously smitten with a girl who left him broken-hearted when she ended their 18-month relationship. The girl he fell for was Lisa de Savary, the eldest daughter of multi-millionaire entrepreneur Peter de Savary, who has made his fortune from developing worldwide luxury resorts, and far from leaving Lisa “bereft and devastated” as the only biography of the Tory leader has claimed, it was she who ditched Cameron.

“I’m afraid she eventually put two fingers up to him,” her father tells me. “They were together for quite a long time but I can assure you it would take a lot more than splitting up from David to devastate Lisa.

“It’s probably for the best that things didn’t work out between them as she would have made an awful politician’s wife. She would have wanted to run things and have him stay at home and look after the children. I think David has found a fantastic wife in Samantha and he certainly has my backing to become Prime Minister.”

A former colleague who worked with Cameron in the Tory policy office (the first job he had after leaving Oxford) says that David “was pretty emotional” after being told by Lisa that she no longer wanted to continue their relationship.

After having a “few meaningless flings” Cameron, then 25, had recovered enough from Lisa’s rejection to show interest in Samantha Sheffield, having been encouraged to pursue her by his sister Claire. The two married in 1996.

Meanwhile Lisa, the eldest of Peter de Savary’s five daughters, had developed her own interests in politics, acting as campaign manager when her father stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in Falmouth in the 1997 general election.

She is now living in Bahrain, where she is married to banker Tim Doyne, with whom she has three children. After working for an events management company, she is now a photographer, with her work on display in the boardrooms of several large companies in the Middle East.

“Lisa is an extremely capable girl and I’m very proud of her,” adds de Savary, en route to his home in the Cotswolds from Newport, Rhode Island, where he has just opened a five-star hotel, Vanderbilt Hall.

“I’ve seen David a few times since they broke up and I only wish him well.”